Kabul, Nov 13 (IANS): At least five people, including a suicide bomber, were killed in four bomb attacks in war-torn Afghanistan Thursday, authorities said.
In one attack, one civilian was killed and five others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted in a handcart was detonated at around 2:00 p.m. local time at a bazaar in Spin Boldak District of the southern Kandahar province, provincial police spokesman Zia Duranni told Xinhua.
The body along with the injured was shifted to a hospital in the district bordering Pakistan, the source said, adding that a woman and two children were among the wounded.
Earlier Thursday morning, three civilians were killed and another injured when an IED went off inside a house in Kandahar city, capital of Kandahar province, 450 km south of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, according to spokesman Duranni.
Further details were unavailable and police launched an investigation into the incident, the source said.
Elsewhere, a bystander was seriously wounded following a suicide car bombing of a NATO-led forces' military convoy in eastern Nangarhar province at midday, a provincial police spokesman told Xinhua.
"The attack occurred at around 1.30 p.m. Thursday in the Loya Wyalla area of provincial capital Jalalabad city. No member of the coalition military convoy was injured in the blast," the spokesman said.
It was the second suicide bombing against a foreign military convoy in the city. One suicide bomber was killed and a military armoured vehicle was destroyed after the bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into another convoy on Thursday morning.
"No injuries were reported in the blast which occurred at around 9 a.m. in the Ring Road area of Jalalabad, 120 km east of capital Kabul," provincial government spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai told Xinhua.
Zabiullah Mujahid, purportedly a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the Jalalabad twin attacks, saying the insurgents carried out the attacks killing several foreign troops beside destroying two armoured vehicles.
A surge in attacks has been witnessed in the country over the past couple of months as NATO and US forces are withdrawing from the war-torn country.
The Taliban urged civilians to stay away from official gatherings, military convoys and centres regarded as legitimate targets by militants besides warning people not to support the government and foreign troops.
Afghanistan is due to take over the responsibility for its own security from NATO-led troops by the end of this year.
More than 34,000 NATO-led coalition troops, down from the peak of 130,000 in 2010, are currently stationed in Afghanistan. Nearly 24,000 of them are Americans and the US plans to trim its forces to less than 10,000 next year.